CardioExchange Archive

May 21st, 2014

Medtronic and Edwards Lifesciences Resolve Patent Disputes

Larry Husten, PHD

After years of protracted and often bitter litigation in the U.S. and abroad, Edwards Lifesciences and Medtronic today announced a broad resolution to all their patent disputes over transcatheter heart valves. Medtronic will pay more than a billion dollars over the course of the agreement, which lasts until April 2022. Edwards will first receive a one-time payment of $750 million, followed […]

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April 15th, 2014

CoreValve Availability In U.S. Threatened By Court Decision

Larry Husten, PHD

A legal injunction may severely limit the availability in the United States of Medtronic’s CoreValve device, which only received FDA approval earlier this year. The device received abundant praise recently when a large clinical trial demonstrated substantial advantages for CoreValve over traditional open-heart surgery. The injunction is the latest episode in an ongoing patent war in which Edwards Lifesciences, which pioneered the […]

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July 12th, 2013

Medtronic Faces Removal of CoreValve Transcatheter Heart Valve from German Market

Larry Husten, PHD

In the wake of a major patent decision, Medtronic will be forced to remove its CoreValve transcatheter heart valve from the German market. Edwards Lifesciences said today that a German Court had found that Medtronic infringed a key patent, known as the Spenser patent, and granted an injunction prohibiting the sale of CoreValve and CoreValve Evolut systems in Germany. Medtronic said it would appeal the […]

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